tetleytea

tetleytea

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Star Trek:TNG took a season to figure things out. They finally let Deanna Troi let down her hair--and then later put Troi in that really dumb romantic relationship with Worf, seasons down the road (even Marina Sirtis felt kind of weird about that).

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I used to buy Ysengard a lot, but the rebalancing has made mercenaries in general less worthwhile. The early transport is useless now. The point of mercenaries was to have little easter-egg-like goodies to spice up the game. It's less so if you're just not buying them. My single biggest wish for Mercenaries is that there would be ships which give +5 Benevolent and +5 Pragmatic per combat, like there is for Malevolent. I want the Steam achievements. Th

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[quote who="Publius of NV" reply="10" id="3690752"] The first episode left me ... meh. The captain left me totally cold, I liked her even less than Janeway. The interactions between the captain and first officer were painful. There is potential in the back story of the first officer and Sarek. Why reinvent the Klingons yet again? Not that Roddenberry was ever completely consistent, but is anybody in charge? One episode didn't give enough time to judge

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[quote]Yup, just like bankers, trying to squeeze your last buck out of you with extra fees and charges. [/quote] My credit card expires before the free trial does, so I'm not one to talk. :D

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HEADS UP. You can get 5 weeks free trial on CBS All Access--not just 1 week. That's at least 6 episodes of Star Trek:Discovery. Big difference between just one trial episode and six. I just tried to cancel my 1-week trial, and they offered me 1 month additional if I would stay. I took it. You don't need to contact a customer rep--you only need to find the "Cancel Subscription" link on the All-Access website. They wil

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I like Precursor worlds. Gives the planets some unique character (which I had requested before Galciv3 development started). Now, if you had 5 Precursor Prisons on the same map, all with the same ideology choices, not as much. Even then, though, if you have a PQ18 Precursor Prison with Arnor spice vs. another PQ18 regular planet with Arnor spice, both have different tile layouts--you still have some different character to them.

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I view tiny hulls as effective in four key situations: 1).Emergency, when you need a ship out in one turn, whatever help it can provide 2). Assisted by fleet modules and military starbases. 24 tiny ships get a lot more mileage out of a +1 laser/fleet bonus than two huge hulls would. 3). Late game, when weapons values are really high. Better for a 50 laser to just kill a 7hp tiny than for a huge hull to eat it all. 4) inside carriers

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Sponsoring one shipyard with multiple precursor worlds can be lots of fun. I had one shipyard where one sponsor drastically increased all the ships' life support range, another sponsor which increased their hit points, and another which increased their sensors. I could add a fourth which buffed their kinetic weapons, but it was far away. That shipyard produced all my warships for that game. I buffed that star system with economic starbases.

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I'm not sure if this is different between all the game versions, but I found that if I rush-buy a ship, that it loses 1 movement. So if I build a ship straight up with no hyperdrives and it is 3 moves, I could rush-buy that same ship and it will have only 2 moves. I found rush-buying ships only to be good to buy the colony ship for Mars.

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Pollen only helps for promoting administrator citizens. No, military starbases have lots of upgrades, especially for Arceans. Territorial Reinforcement tech gives +5 to all three defenses. If you have large fleet battles, those bonuses multiply a lot. Sounds like military SB's are far more expensive in base game, due to serious shortage in admin points. But if you're just trying to finish off his home base, you shouldn't have to really care that much.&

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Does decommissioning starbases give you an administrator back now? In any event, in my last ludicrous game, I had 93 starbases. Picking citizens to be administrators is on top of my list. And you can promote them for more admin points, if you have an Epinetheus pollen. In a pinch, you can put a Leader on an Admin spot.

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I beat them on godlike without Thalan assistance. Not a very memorable map. I think I parked a military starbase outside his home and researched Territorial Reinforcement. Lost maybe two ships. I figured the point of the campaign is to highlight their strength with starbases. Arceans are an awesome race.

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You get a 1-week free trial (and could probably pull off more than 1 free trial, if you have viewing parties). $6 a month after that, which probably comes out to 4 episodes. Lets you stream CBS to WiFi and your phone.. They're making Discovery strategic to CBS. They're banking a lot on it.

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